Neurology® Podcast - May 3 2011 Issue

Weight gain and recurrence in idiopathic intracranial hypertension

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1) Idiopathic intracranial hypertension and 2) Topic of the month: Featured speakers from the AAN Meeting. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. Beau Bruce interviews Dr. Melissa Ko about her paper on idiopathic intracranial hypertension. In the next segment, Dr. Sarah Song is reading our e-Pearl of the week about carotid-cavernous fistula. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Alberto Espay interviews Dr. Serge Przedborski about his talk on Neurodegeneration: Models and mechan
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1) Idiopathic intracranial hypertension and 2) Topic of the month: Featured speakers from the AAN Meeting. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. Beau Bruce interviews Dr. Melissa Ko about her paper on idiopathic intracranial hypertension. In the next segment, Dr. Sarah Song is reading our e-Pearl of the week about carotid-cavernous fistula. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Alberto Espay interviews Dr. Serge Przedborski about his talk on Neurodegeneration: Models and mechanisms. Over the subsequent four weeks, Dr. Espay will interview other featured speakers from the AAN Meeting. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Bruce, Song and Espay.
Dr. Bruce has received grant funding from the AAN/AANF Practice Research Fellowship and is funded by NIH grants UL1-RR025008 and KL2-RR025009.
Dr. Song served on the editorial team for the Neurology® Resident and Fellow Section.
Dr. Espay serves on scientific advisory boards for Boehringer Ingelheim and Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; serves on the editorial advisory board for The European Neurological Journal; has received speaker honoraria from UCB/SCHWARZ PHARMA, Medtronic, Inc., and Novartis; has received honoraria from Novartis, the American Academy of Neurology, and the Movement Disorders Society; has served on speakers' bureaus for UCB/SCHWARZ PHARMA and Novartis; receives/has received research support from Medtronic, Inc., Allergan, Inc., CleveMed, the KL2 Research Scholars mentored career development award, and NIH Institutional Clinical and Translational Science Award (RR026315-02), Dean Scholar's Award - University of Cincinnati, Davis Phinney Foundation, and the Michael J Fox Foundation.